In Visual Studio 2008, we added the ability to quickly determine the most expensive call stack in your application . In profiler parlance, the “most expensive call stack” is known as the “hot path”. What do we mean by “expensive”? “Expensive” is whatever...

I spend a lot of time in the profiler's Call Tree view when I use the profiler. When you are really digging deep into the tree, screen real estate becomes a big issue. There is one very simple Visual Studio trick that really helps out so you can get more...